Tour Guide, Skardu, Pakistan
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Trango Towers are situated in the north of Pakistan in Gilgit Baltistan. Trango towers are the combination of rocks snow gullies and vertical limits. This mountain famjam has some impressive and extremely difficult rocky towers on earth. A climb here is considered world's hardest mountain climb. They are a part of Baltoro Muztagh, it is a sub range of Karakoram ranges. It has an altitude of 6286 m. It is considered a type of Alpine Big Wall. Trango towers have Trango Glaciers on its west and the Dunge Glacier on the east.
Peaks in the Trango towers:
Kruksum(s) 6650 m
Kruksum(n) 6600 m
Trango (II) 6510 m
Trango (I) 6450 m
Kruksum (e) 6300 m
trango(IV) 6300 m
trango (III) 6300 m
Great Trango (I) 6286 m
Nameless 6239 m
Great Trango (II) 6237 m
Great Trango (III) 6230 m
Monk 6150 m
Pulpit 6050 m
Castle 5750 m
A fascinating base jump story from the Trango towers:
On August 1992 two Australians Nic Feteris and Glen Singleman climbed Great Trango and then base jumped from 5955 m. They landed on Dunge glacier at 4200 m. This was the highest base jump record at the time. This record was broken by Singleman later.
Climbers of the towers:
1976- Anthony, Boysen, Howells and Brown
1977- Hennek , Rowell, Roskelley, Schmitz, Morrissey
1984- Deseth and Daehil
1985- Selters and Woolums
1987- Yugoslav Cankar , Knez and Srot, Swiss , Delate , Schaffers and Fouquet
1988- Swiss , kurtyka , loretan, German Gullich , Muchenbach and albert , giordani
1989- Gallego , Clavel , rose , seiguer
1990- Iowe , Destivelle , Minamiura (first solo)
1992- Child and wilford and Midendorf and Bongard
1995- Ogden , Benegas , Starr , Brand, Izco , Zabalza , Aquerreta , Skineer , Lilygren and Bechtel
1997- Rezeczycki , Jarrett , Hollinger and Baker
Pakistani people who climbed the Trango :-
Trango towers has only been climbed by three Pakistanis till date, namely- Late Sir Imran Junaidi and Late Sir Usman Tariq and Sir Sarwar Khan.
If you want to know more, read the following books:
The nameless Tower by Jim Curran
Beyond the summit by Todd skineer
Postcard from the ledge by Greg
Films Trango has been in:-
The Great Trango Tower
Base climb
Expedition Volume 2
Point breaking
Trango tower is the Pakistan is the most expensive expedition ever. Best time to go is between June to September because its the easiest time to go for summits. It is allowed to camp anywhere on these towers, porters are available easily, and you can find a proper gear for the climb easily.